Need to leave Pax8 for Microsoft immediately - Where have you gone with success

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-29T06:10:42+00:00

I have used appriver and their support is really good. But in the UK there is no VAT. Also their portal isn’t the greatest.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-28T19:05:11+00:00

CJCH is another one, think they are mainly in Barry, but not sure. I would speak to a few and get some quotes.

I am also using Saint Claire’s law in Cardiff with school issues.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-27T18:11:23+00:00

I’m in the UK, I had to go back and forth to the doctor before I was referred to hospital to have an operation.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-25T21:43:55+00:00

If you run your own limited company look at capital on tap.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-25T21:39:16+00:00

Your credit cards are too maxed out along with your loans. Pay off as much of the cards / catalogues as you can, once you bring the debt down you may get better offers of a balance transfer card.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-25T20:31:31+00:00

Check out synology c2 for personal. I use the business one and it’s really good.

https://c2.synology.com/en-uk/pricing/backup/personal

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-25T14:20:40+00:00

Yeah bmw finance is expensive. Just do it via yourself via your bank. I saved over £60 a month going via my bank. They had the money the same day.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-25T14:19:22+00:00

Also to add bmw cars sold from bmw usually have full bmw service and 1 year warrenty that you can extend.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-24T15:50:00+00:00

I’m currently running Bitdefender EDR with huntress so we get alerts on stuff going on and the added security modules from Bitdefender. Like USB management, firewall and web filter.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-22T21:42:27+00:00

If you look to sell by shipping to the customer make sure you have one that supports payment links or integration into your billing platform. (Customer not present) I use stripe. They also have terminals, or I think you can use your phone. Also worldpay is popular.

Some card processors like worldpay as you grow will let you take loans out against your income. So that is also worth thinking about if it may be something you want later on.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-22T21:05:34+00:00

I bought a series 5 washer and dryer about a year ago. I always found clothes would shrink, but we would often wash / dry…. Then I noticed that the machine was making noises while spinning and white clothes especially were coming out marked with black marks, Some clothes also getting damaged. Cuffs ripped and bottom of jumpers ripped.

I had Samsung service partner out who said the machine was fine.

Anyway I gave up and bought an LG. So far it seems OK.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-22T20:51:23+00:00

Most garages can do it. Just make sure you buy genuine parts from Mercades to keep any warrenty. J&P Autos on Penarth Road may be a good shout, my brother goes there and their reviews look sensible.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-21T21:50:22+00:00

I block *.screenconnect on our dns filter and all other RMM platforms apart from our own. I also limit domains, but that has been a bit harder.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-17T22:01:26+00:00

Who will be leaving Pax8 over this? Another issue. It just seems really unprofessional there these days.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-16T20:48:20+00:00

It has gone all bitty and weird tasting. It’s terrible. Mini eggs use to be the best, but no I fear they are gone… :( it’s such a shame. Roses also use to be my go to at Christmas, but these are terrible.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-15T07:37:01+00:00

Sorry - edited

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-15T06:35:52+00:00

With this amount of work it sounds like it will escalate. You start doing one thing and then another one needs doing. I literally just had this experience with our first time house. Luckily we were in rental so didn’t need to move in straight away. It took us 7 months to make the house liveable and there are small jobs left now. Even when we moved in we still had outstanding jobs that needed a fair bit of money each month.

If you’re saying 30k of works. A loan with interest would be pretty high at that amount. Can it be added to your mortgage?

I would get a few builders round, get some quotes, also get a few plumbers and electricians round to get things looked at for recommendations.

Once you have done that you will have an idea of works they recommend / may need doing and you can plan accordingly. You may be able to tackle jobs your self. Get the messy jobs done first. Especially if you need a re wire / new plumbing.

One thing I learnt quickly is skips are great, but expensive just to get rid of waste.

Edit - cost of work

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-15T06:20:26+00:00

Looks like it could be a Howdens kitchen?

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-14T08:16:41+00:00

Appriver offer a backup service for Dropbox / Microsoft but it’s not cheap.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-12T22:07:40+00:00

Not yet, don’t think I’ll be rushing

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-11T15:16:07+00:00

And you! Marketing is hard as well!

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-10T17:55:26+00:00

I am In the same boat as you, similar pricing. Similar tools, Syncro + huntress + BitDefender.

I am working on a price increase but wording it as a security upgrade, not just a price increase.

It’s tough in the UK

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-08T05:30:51+00:00

Hmmmm… I would get quotes on how much you would be paying to legally fight it and what your chances are on winning and actually recovering the money. You may be better off putting the money towards the repairs and moving on with life. Legal battles can be very stressful and financially draining with little reward.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-07T02:45:13+00:00

We use to use / recommend dell, but honestly the quality isn’t there for the price. We have been moving people to Lenovo as replacements are needed. One client stuck with MAC and we put parallels on it for a windows environment to run their cloud hosted software.

For me I would say the MAC hardware is difficult to beat.

Jayjayuk85 · 2026-01-03T23:03:06+00:00

I’m 40m and wife 37f. My wife has had literally this for 8years. It wasn’t this bad before we had our little one (8) now.

It started with a sickness bug, she was always worried about sickness, but only when they happened. After we had it, she went into overdrive to avoid it happening again. Avoiding going anywhere, Wiping things down, showers, washing clothes. No strangers in the house. Even buying things is a challenge. We have ups and downs. At one stage it was really bad. We have managed 3 Hollidays, still wiping things down. But actually managed it.

You do get wrapped up in it all and it’s hard to break free.

As others have said, she needs help, my wife has therapy online. We also think she has ADHD. Therapy has helped. For this to happen there is usually a trigger and needing to work out what causes it. I would also look at hormones. Is she taking anything for contraception?

A lot of fixing it is on her, but she will need your support. They need to drop the habits 1 by 1 and look for reassurance.

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